Creating Culturally Inclusive Learning Environments CLAC
Monday, February 13, 11:30 a.m. on Zoom
An information session and roundtable discussion hosted by the Center for Asian Studies.
Speakers will include Asian Languages and Civilizations faculty members Katherine Alexander, Assistant Professor of Chinese, Marjorie Burge, Assistant Professor of Japanese, and Evelyn Shih, Assistant Professor of Chinese. Moderated by Center for Asian Studies Executive Director Danielle Rocheleau Salaz.
CLAC is a curricular framework that provides opportunities to develop and apply language and intercultural competence within all academic disciplines through the use of multilingual resources and the inclusion of multiple cultural perspectives. Since 2017, CU faculty have been applying CLAC to courses across the curriculum to better engage and enrich learning by heritage language users and students of Asian languages.
CLAC courses provide a structure for students to deepen their study content from an English-language course through the incorporation of additional source materials in another language. These courses have been shown to enhance student learning, create a deeper sense of community and belonging, and improve language skills.
Join us to learn about the CLAC model, hear about the experiences of faculty at CU who have successfully designed and led CLAC courses, and find out about opportunities for course development grants for CLAC programming using Asian languages. Although funding is only available for Asian-language course development grants, we encourage participation from across disciplines and languages as the CLAC model is valuable for all languages and students.
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